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JAMES AND RICHARD C. WALRATH, 6F OHITTENANGO, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 61,778, dated February 5,1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, JAMES WALRATH and RICHARD C. WALRATH, of Ohittenitngo, in the county of Madison, and State of New York, have invented a new andjmproved Process of-Solidifying and- Condensing Peat to be used as Fuel; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

The nature of our invention consistsin mixing with peat, about to be pressed into cakes .or lumps for use as fuel, a certain proportion of fine coalorcoal dust and fresh blood, and also in adding a litttle common salt to this compound in case the same may be necessary or'desirable.

The above-mentioned compound or solidifie'dpeat may' be manufactured in difl'erent ways, the formula. to be.

7 preferred depending principally upon the character and quality of the raw peat to be solidified. Two formulas for making the solidified peat are as follows:

First, take 100 parts of peat; mix with it from 1 to equal parts of any kind of fine mineral coal or coal dust, and from 1 to 59 parts of fresh blood; press into cakes, lumps, or bricks, and dry. Second, take 100 parts of peat, mix with it from 1 to equal parts of any kind of mineral coal or coal dust, and from 1 to'50 parts of fresh blood containing 1 partof common salt; press into cakes, lumps, o r bricks, and dry. aThe parts of the above formulas may be determined by weight. I

We propose to mix the coal dust or fine coal, peat, and blood in such proportions, as to peat and coal, as will enable us toproduce fuels of different values as regards burning properties, their base being :ncombination ,of coal dust or fine coal and peat. The admixture of peat'to thefine coal or coal dust makes an addition of carbon, and at the same time serves to fill up the interstices between the: particles of cool, while the blood, acting as 'an adhesive agent to the mixture, serves to bind the coal dust and peat in a solid mass the albumen contained in the blood contracting during the process of burning, and serving to retain the particles together in a solid mass until complete combustion has taken place. The peculiar advantages of our mode of preparing peat for'fuel are, first, that it produces a cheap article of fuel that can be easily handled, and will not readily crumble or waste; second, its density and solidity are nearly if not quite double that of peat prepared in the ordinary way, thus making it equal to coal in point of value as an article of fuel.

We are aware that blood has been used in the manufacture of peat or coal fuel. We also are aware that peat and coal have been compounded, but we do not know of the use of blood, coal, and peat together, nor do we know of the use of salt in such a compound. I,

What we claim, therefore, as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The compound, preparedsubstantially as herein described, for fuel. I

Also cakes, lumps, or bricks, pressed and dried, made from the within-described compound.

JAMES WALRATH, R. C. WALRATH.

Witnesses:

SAML. L, Cosme, L. W. HIGLEY. 

